Top Pop PCGS MS67 Pilgrim Jubilee So-Called Dollar Just Sold

Zoins

Beautiful top pop 1/0 PCGS MS67 Pilgrim Jubilee Memorial HK-13 just sold for $1,450.00 tonight.

This has the initials of a Jarvis E. Ellis on it as J.E. Ellis. Jarvis E. Ellis was a member of the Pilgrim Society. This was struck by Scovill Manufacturing in Waterbury, Connecticut and there was also a Jarvis Ellis, son of Darwin Ellis, who worked there.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/FINEST-KNOWN-1870-PILGRIM-JUBILEE-MEMORIAL-SO-CALLED-DOLLAR-MS-67-PCGS-/273475506593?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l10137

More info:

• https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35008826
• https://so-calleddollars.com/Events/Pilgrim_Jubilee.html
• http://www.medalartists.com/ellis-salathiel.html

BG

WOW. Amazing look to it.

I own this piece:

ricko

Very attractive SC$1....a really beautiful design. Cheers, RickO

thisistheshow

That is absolutely stunning.

Regulated

It's almost certain that Scovill Manufacturing made the dies for the Bushnell fantasy Fugio Cents and the reverse die for the New Haven Restrikes. Small world.

You have to wonder whether Jarvis could have been named for James Jarvis...

coinsarefun

It was listed for barely a week, I think. I was watching that one.

Zoins

It's a great piece. Specimens like this is the reason I'm hoping for more PCGS TrueViewed So-Called Dollars per the thread below:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/921518/would-more-pcgs-slabbed-so-called-dollars-increase-interest-in-them#latest

I would be great to see this in a Registry Set. I hope it's not crossed to ATS. It would be a shame since this is a top pop at PCGS.

Timbuk3

Wow, amazing !!!

jmlanzaf

I've always liked that design

Pioneer1

This piece is a nice connection to this thread....

Zoins

@coinsarefun said:
It was listed for barely a week, I think. I was watching that one.

It was actually listed twice, once for about $2,400 where it didn't sell and a second time for $1,450, both BINs. I was seriously considering picking it up and still think about it occasionally. I didn't have a collection at the time but now I have about 5 of these medals so I'd really consider it now

I have this one which is NCG MS66 PL, POP 2/1 with a single NGC MS66 DPL above it.

thefinn

A lot of money for a plated piece.

Zoins

@thefinn said:
A lot of money for a plated piece.

There is a big premium for both the grade and toning on that one. None of the other HK-13s I've see have that look.

It was a lot more than my PCGS MS64 and my ANACS MS65. Both of these are silver plated like the one in the OP but look totally different. The toner looks exactly like that at the right angle with the light which I like. The ANACS one has the thinnest sheen of silver. At some angles you can't tell it's plated and other ones it's just glistening. It's really a beautiful look.

These silver plated issues remind me of Zinfandel wine in that each one can look very different.

Zoins

@Pioneer1 said:
This piece is a nice connection to this thread....

This is a very interesting Scovill Manufacturing Store Card. I wonder how and when it was done given the discrepancies with the Pilgrim Society So-Called Dollar.

I've highlighted two notable differences:

• In the left, the So-Called Dollar has an extra branch where the lower open field is.
• In the right, the Store Card has hills that don't exist in the So-Called Dollar.

Given that new devices exist on each, it's not quite possible to say one came after the other definitively.